Objective: to analyze childbirth and birth care practices in a public maternity hospital. Methods: a crosssectional descriptive study made in a tertiary maternity hospital with 264 puerperal women. Collection proceeded by means of a form based on good childbirth care practices. Results: prevalence of good childbirth care practices. It was observed that 233 (88.3%) received information, 256 (97.0%) had freedom o...
Objetivo: avaliar a eficácia de um manual educativo na instrumentalização do acompanhante para prestar apoio à parturiente e verificar a sua influência na satisfação do acompanhante e da mulher com o processo de parto vaginal. Método: piloto de ensaio clínico controlado randomizado com 65 acompanhantes e puérperas (intervenção=21 e controle=44). O conhecimento prévio dos acompanhantes foi avaliado em linha de b...
Introduction: The clinical characteristics of women who conceive during leprosy and the association between leprosy and pregnancy are not well known. Methods: This cross-sectional study included 49 pregnant or lactating women diagnosed with leprosy in 2011. Results: The patients had a clinical dimorphous form of leprosy (44.9%), no physical incapacity at diagnosis (87.5%), and no complications in either the pat...
A pesquisa testa os efeitos de duas intervenções educativas, sendo uma individual e que tomou o folder como apoio ao processo ensino-aprendizagem, e a outra, grupal, que adotou o álbum seriado como o referido apoio. Ambas as intervenções eram de promoção ao uso consistente do anticoncepcional oral combinado. Tratou-se de pesquisa experimental, a comparar três grupos: grupo com intervenção por folder, grupo com ...
Aim: To know the profile of women assisted in the family planning program and to verify the presence of reproductive risks. Method: This is an analytic, transversal study performed with 264 users of the family planning program of the public health system of the city of Fortaleza, Brazil, from March to June 2010. The data was collected through interviews and then submitted to a descriptive statistical analysis. ...
In addition to a leading position on infant’s nutrition, breast milk acts as an immunizing agent due to the absence of allergenic factors and the presence of maternal antibodies and of substances that ensure better digestibility. This research aimed at identifying the prevalence of the nursing diagnosis: ineffective breastfeeding in nursing mothers. Cross-sectional and descriptive study conducted with 95 nursin...
Objective: to investigate the nursing diagnosis “Self-care deficit in dressing of mastectomized women”. Method: this is a cross-sectional study, conducted with 55 women undergoing antineoplastic treatment in October and November 2011. We analyzed variables with “yes” and “no” answers by z test for proportions; associations between surgery type and defining characteristics by c2 test; normality of variables usin...
To assess the knowledge and practice of nurses concerning infertility in primary care. Quantitative, cross-sectional study, carried out with 171 nurses in the Municipal Health System of Fortaleza-CE, Brazil. Data were collected through interviews, from November 2009 to April 2010. Likert scales were used to assess the knowledge and practice of nurses. The predominant sex was female, age and time of work in fami...
Objectives: to identify the knowledge of users of combined oral contraceptive about correct use, side effects and complications; to verify the correlation between knowledge about the method with age, education, family income and time of use. Method: cross-sectional study performed in Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil, from March to July 2010, with 294 women. Data were collected through interviews. Results: 75% had subst...
O objetivo geral foi avaliar o perfil de uso de Anticoncepcionais Orais Combinados (AOC) de baixa dose e fatores associados. Os objetivos específicos incluíram: conhecer as condições demográficas e socioeconômicas de usuárias de AOC e principais riscos reprodutivos presentes no grupo; avaliar o conhecimento de usuárias de AOC de baixa dose com relação ao uso correto, efeitos colaterais e complicações; verificar...